An excerpt from the artist statement from the artist’s website:
“In my work
this romantic ideal of union with the natural world conflicts with our
contemporary impact on the environment.
These pieces are in part responses to environmental stressors including
climate change, toxic pollution, and gm crops.
They also borrow from myth, art history, figures of speech and other
cultural touchstones. In some pieces
aspects of the human figure stand-in for ourselves and act out sometimes
harrowing, sometimes humorous transformations which illustrate our current
relationship with the natural world. In
others, animals take on anthropomorphic qualities when they are given safety
equipment to attempt to protect them from man-made environmental threats. In each case the union between man and nature
is shown to be one of friction and discomfort with the disturbing implication
that we too are vulnerable to being victimized by our destructive practice”
Please visit her website to learn more about her and the work.
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